Servicing your own bike to be illegal?

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Chatting to a chum who is a badly dressed motorcycle hooligan he tells me there are plans afoot about servicing bikes. That you must take it to an authorised garage to be serviced thus making it 'illegal' to service it yourself. Anybody heard about this or is he being wound up? I've tried Google but can find nowt.

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LE

As a badly-dressed motorcycle hooligan meself, I can confirm that the EUSSR are planning to interfere with all manner of things bike-related. And when they've finished with us, they'll be coming for you car drivers.

How would you, for instance, like to allow passing police officers to interrogate your car's onboard diagnostics and download GPS data showing the cars's recent journeys and speeds and issue FPNs for every recorded infraction? A smidge too Orwellian, perhaps?

If Kwik-Fit aren't making a few bob out of it, then that's an impediment to economic recovery. And after all, if just one life is saved, surely any amount of vastly expensive interference in what is laughingly called our private lives is justified.......

LE

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The proposed legislation doesn't say that servicing must always be carried out at an authorised workshop, it says that manufacturers must release servicing and maintenance information to independent workshops. There is no requirement to actually service the thing at all.

LE

If Kwik-Fit aren't making a few bob out of it, then that's an impediment to economic recovery. And after all, if just one life is saved, surely any amount of vastly expensive interference in what is laughingly called our private lives is justified.......

LE

Lots of stories going around the classic car people about not being able to work on a car in Italy If you are not qualified, or you carn't do an oil change or drop the coolant in Germany. I haven't come across facts to back up these stories and think most restrictions are down to environmental considerations but I wonder how long we will be able to do our own welding or brake repairs in this "elf n safety" new Jarusalem were building.

Haven't had an accident in years. See a lot in my rear view mirror though.

Hopefully that will force the ugly, noisy, chrome clad pieces of shite off the road. And I'm all for it applying to 'classic' cars too. The roads today are just too busy to get stuck behind something pastel colured, half timbered and with leather tyres resolutely doing 32mph. Even at the sodding weekends.

LE

Hopefully that will force the ugly, noisy, chrome clad pieces of shite off the road. And I'm all for it applying to 'classic' cars too. The roads today are just too busy to get stuck behind something pastel colured, half timbered and with leather tyres resolutely doing 32mph. Even at the sodding weekends.

LE

Hopefully that will force the ugly, noisy, chrome clad pieces of shite off the road. And I'm all for it applying to 'classic' cars too. The roads today are just too busy to get stuck behind something pastel colured, half timbered and with leather tyres resolutely doing 32mph. Even at the sodding weekends.

If the daily heil is anything to go by it won't be long until 32mph is the maximum allowed speed (if you have the advanced driving licence) and all vehicles * will be governed to not be able to exceed this limit.

A vicious rumour that's been floating around the internet for a few years.
There is a recommendation (from anyone selling tyres) that you should not fit tyres older than 5 or 6 years because the rubber degrades due to UV rays.

LE

What the new legislation actually says is that you cannot fit non approved items to your motorcycle (and car).

So, when servicing your bike, you cannot stick in a K and N filter instead of your manufacterers or OEM one. You cannot put on fancy wavy disks and carbon pads (that dont bloody work on a road bike at road speeds anyway!). That you cannot remap/rejet your fuelling etc etc.

There is not doubt that some items sold as performance parts are lethal. I have one dead friend whose fancy carbon front wheel (for race track only) collapsed and catapulted him under a lorry. So, cracking down on Non Approved items I feel is a good idea.

What must be remembered is that some performance items are approved, and will continue to be legal. Certain bike manufacturers have there own approved performace exhausts for example and many after market exhaust suppliers meet the proposed standards already.

What will happen is things like mini indicators will dissapear off the shelves, and again, thats no bad thing when you consider some are so small and with smoked glass that they are almost useless.

LE

Hopefully that will force the ugly, noisy, chrome clad pieces of shite off the road. And I'm all for it applying to 'classic' cars too. The roads today are just too busy to get stuck behind something pastel colured, half timbered and with leather tyres resolutely doing 32mph. Even at the sodding weekends.

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LE

What the new legislation actually says is that you cannot fit non approved items to your motorcycle (and car).

So, when servicing your bike, you cannot stick in a K and N filter instead of your manufacterers or OEM one. You cannot put on fancy wavy disks and carbon pads (that dont bloody work on a road bike at road speeds anyway!). That you cannot remap/rejet your fuelling etc etc.

There is not doubt that some items sold as performance parts are lethal. I have one dead friend whose fancy carbon front wheel (for race track only) collapsed and catapulted him under a lorry. So, cracking down on Non Approved items I feel is a good idea.

What must be remembered is that some performance items are approved, and will continue to be legal. Certain bike manufacturers have there own approved performace exhausts for example and many after market exhaust suppliers meet the proposed standards already.

What will happen is things like mini indicators will dissapear off the shelves, and again, thats no bad thing when you consider some are so small and with smoked glass that they are almost useless.